Murderer at 11, Nathaniel Abraham off parole

Nathaniel Abraham, 13, is escorted from his murder trial in Pontiac, Mich., Nov. 9, 1999. In the seven years since Abraham was locked up at age 11 for murder, he's dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player, entertainer, carpenter, lawyer, barber and inspirational speaker who steers kids from crime. Now 19, Abraham still sometimes stares down at the table in front of him and mumbles confused teenage answers. But often he holds his head up, meets the judge's gaze, and answers succinctly. He recently told Judge Eugene Arthur Moore that he plans to get out of detention, avoid his old neighborhood, go to college and start a business. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)(Photo: (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file))

Nathaniel Abraham, one of the youngest people to be charged with murder as an adult, has finished his parole, according to the Michigan Department of Corrections.

In 1997, Abraham, then 11, fatally shot Ronnie Greene, 18, in the head outside of a Pontiac party store with a stolen .22-caliber rifle. An Oakland County judge sentenced Abraham, a sixth-grader, for second-degree murder as a juvenile, allowing him a chance to be released when he was 21.

He was released in 2007 at age 21. State programs paid for an apartment and tuition for him to attend a community college. A year later, undercover cops caught Abraham doing a curbside drug deal in downtown Pontiac. He was carrying 254 Ecstasy pills in the trunk of his car.

Abraham was put back behind bars at age 22 to serve a 4-20 year sentence for selling drugs. In 2011, at 25, Abraham was accused of assaulting two Corrections officers in Adrian.

He was released from a Michigan prison on parole in June 2017, and on June 28, was released from parole, said Chris Gautz, a Corrections spokesman.